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[loveourbirds]

ask my wife, im the biggest whiner there is

. i just hate hospitals, it seems like every time i go to one it costs me $1000 for them to tell me im sick. they end up writing me prescriptions that usually have more negative side effects than positive affects. i dont talk about this openly much, but i had a percocet addition that started with a prescription a decade ago. i dont want to go through that again, ive been clean for over 10 years. so when i go to the hospital i tell them no pain medication; for the most part, unless i need antibiotics or a bone set there is no reason for me to go.

 

[sumi]

ask my wife, im the biggest whiner there is

. i just hate hospitals, it seems like every time i go to one it costs me $1000 for them to tell me im sick. they end up writing me prescriptions that usually have more negative side effects than positive affects. i dont talk about this openly much, but i had a percocet addition that started with a prescription a decade ago. i dont want to go through that again, ive been clean for over 10 years. so when i go to the hospital i tell them no pain medication; for the most part, unless i need antibiotics or a bone set there is no reason for me to go.

LOL Well, I don't whine, but I draw the line at pouring flammable liquids on myself! I went home for lunch one day, got mad at DH, took my frustration out on a handy pole (the pole won), went back to work with a broken toe. My poor boss followed me around the rest of the day with a chair going "Please sit down, please sit down!" Talk about stubborn and stupid!

I've calmed down a bit since, but I've also reached a point where I turn down prescription meds, unless I really need it. It's so expensive and half the time it doesn't work. I used to get sinus infections all the time and the doctor prescribed this and that antibiotic until I got so fed-up. None of them worked! And the bills were scary. Then one day, sick again, I sat and looked at the antibiotics I bought for the chickens and thought hmm, I wonder what would happen if I take that? I felt better after the first dose and I was fine after the 3rd

I'm not recommending it though!! If you (or anyone else) try this, it's at your own risk. O.K?

One thing I cannot live without is my pain meds. I don't use them often, but when I have a sinus headache I want my drugs! LOL

 

[ozexpat]

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Originally Posted by loveourbirds

ask my wife, im the biggest whiner there is

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Men are whimps when they are sick (including myself) but it amuses me to hear people "whine" about hospitals and doctors. There is nothing like being lumped into a box with others. It cracks me up that people change food suppliers if they get crappy service yet they continue to go to bad doctors. The patriarch relationship is over people. Doctors aren't like the Pope - there is no diction that says they are infallible. We need to all take responsibility for our health care - but we need to do it in an educated way - and I am not meaning turning on that fool Dr Oz for your health education.

 

[ozexpat]

Men are whimps when they are sick (including myself) but it amuses me to hear people "whine" about hospitals and doctors. There is nothing like being lumped into a box with others. It cracks me up that people change food suppliers if they get crappy service yet they continue to go to bad doctors. The patriarch relationship is over people. Doctors aren't like the Pope - there is no diction that says they are infallible. We need to all take responsibility for our health care - but we need to do it in an educated way - and I am not meaning turning on that fool Dr Oz for your health education.

 

[loveourbirds]

is it sad that i dont know who doctor oz is? i would not push my lifestyle on anyone, i realize there is a need for medical care; i myself just don't like to pay them to tell me what i already know. i realize that there are some prescriptions that are better than homeopathic remedies, but there are homeopathic remedies that are better than prescriptions too. I am the last person you should listen to on medical advice though, i have some medical training; but only enough to get myself in trouble. i can stitch if i need too, and i can set broken bones on anyone but myself (again im a whiner LOL). would i stitch my kids or set their bones? - only if medical attention was not available.

i am typing this and realizing again that i might be a tad eccentric. i pay by far more money on vets for my animals than i do on health care for myself.

 

[lizanne]

Men are whimps when they are sick (including myself) but it amuses me to hear people "whine" about hospitals and doctors. There is nothing like being lumped into a box with others. It cracks me up that people change food suppliers if they get crappy service yet they continue to go to bad doctors. The patriarch relationship is over people. Doctors aren't like the Pope - there is no diction that says they are infallible. We need to all take responsibility for our health care - but we need to do it in an educated way - and I am not meaning turning on that fool Dr Oz for your health education.

I agree. Dr's are in a business just like everyone else. I tend to have more of a issue with dentists. I really have to be comfortable with some one to let them do anything permanent to my teeth. I hate dentist that are pushy, or move to fast, or that have offices that are super fancy and offer other services like massages. I currently don't have a dentist because the first one I liked had to sell his practice, and the second one retired. I cannot stand Dr Oz, and I hate that he goes on the cover of Womens magazines, and TV to tell everyone how to be healthy. yuck!!

 

[wescottwomen]

How awful, not to mention irresponsible! I hope he doesn't lose them. 

Me to thanks

Wow. I .................................don't know what I would do................I know what I would of done several years ago. Im older and wiser now but ..................................hmmmmmmm............................Accidents happen but thinking that he was going to make him go back to work makes me angry and its not my kid.

Ya we are angry to he was saposed to be carrying cement bags not running or catching mixers

sorry to hear this.  he's young, sounds like he's strong and probably a little head strong at 16 (most of us boys were).  he will probably heal ok, ill keep my finger's crossed.

ive worked construction along with many other jobs.  they expect you to work through "minor" injuries, and their idea of minor is different from ours.  saw mills, and garages are the same way.  on a saw mill i broke 3 fingers on my left hand (long story).  if i left the other guys would have been out of work too, i traded a guy positions and stacked lumber one handed for the rest of the day.

in your son's case though, the guy should have probably told your husband first.  him cleaning it was a good thing; concrete poisoning is no fun at all, im sure it could get much worse if internal.  i think you have a good reason for being upset, but the situation - especially if this other guy is a friend - may need some understanding too.

i wish i had an idea on how to help him with the pain, we always just poured diesel fuel or kerosene on it and went on; im really not sure how safe this is. i can tell you that i never heard of infection from this - but im not a doctor either.  we also done this just as soon as the injury happened, i dont know if it works later.  

another thing i might do is go get some watkins or raleigh drawing salve. just in case an infection starts.

its not a skin infection we have o worry about its a bone infection and he's not someone we really know that we'll but ya we are older and waiting to see what the doc says if all gos ok he can pay the bill but if he loses fingers we will get a lawyer because he should have known better

 

[Doug Hodges]

I have chronic back pain. I take Vicodin as needed. I am not a wimp. I go through life with pain and have for many years. I have bone spurs in my back and a few degenerative discs. I always hurt. I broke my ankle last September and didn't go to the doctor. I toughed it out. I climbed my deer stand with one leg. I taped it up and limped around for months. I heard it crack when I twisted it in a hole. I know it broke because Ive broken it 2 other times. It hurts all the time as well. My arms go to sleep and ache because of my back. My wife is a wimp and cries when she is sick and wants petted. I oblige. I tried to get health insurance last year and was denied because I didn't have a doctor (my friend who is a nurse practitioner prescribes my vicodin) and haven't been to the doctor or hospital in over 15 years. I am as healthy as can be and am paying for all those times I lifted things that most normal people would never of attempted. Such as a 4 cylinder motor with the transmission attached or the log to carry on my shoulders through the woods when I didn't have the money for a tractor. I learned form my Grandpa at a young age that if you believe you can, then you can. Well, I could but I hurt for it now. My wife calls me her Mountain Man.

Ok so now you know a little more about Doug.

 

[loveourbirds]

I have chronic back pain. I take Vicodin as needed. I am not a wimp. I go through life with pain and have for many years. I have bone spurs in my back and a few degenerative discs. I always hurt. I broke my ankle last September and didn't go to the doctor. I toughed it out. I climbed my deer stand with one leg. I taped it up and limped around for months. I heard it crack when I twisted it in a hole. I know it broke because Ive broken it 2 other times. It hurts all the time as well. My arms go to sleep and ache because of my back. My wife is a wimp and cries when she is sick and wants petted. I oblige. I tried to get health insurance last year and was denied because I didn't have a doctor (my friend who is a nurse practitioner prescribes my vicodin) and haven't been to the doctor or hospital in over 15 years. I am as healthy as can be and am paying for all those times I lifted things that most normal people would never of attempted. Such as a 4 cylinder motor with the transmission attached or the log to carry on my shoulders through the woods when I didn't have the money for a tractor. I learned form my Grandpa at a young age that if you believe you can, then you can. Well, I could but I hurt for it now. My wife calls me her Mountain Man.

Ok so now you know a little more about Doug.

im similar. i was hit by a loader (on the saw mill) and broke my back. the doctors wanted me to go for disability, because "if i turn wrong, or sneeze to hard" i will be paralyzed. i will not go on disability unless i have to, thats why i have all these chickens to keep me busy. i can work at my own pace, if i hurt i can take a break - rub some hot peppers on it and go.

i heard someone say once "poor people have poor ways." ive lifted things i shouldnt lift because i couldnt afford the equipment to do it. ive hand turned an acre and a half and hoed to make a garden area because i couldnt afford a tiller. thank God ive gotten wiser with my money (and off the pills that did consume alot of it). now i can usually buy or borrow what i need, ive also relearned to trade - you would be amazed at what a few laying hens will get you.

ok im getting off the subject of the thread here, sorry sally.

 

[ozexpat]

My comment was not to bruise the egos of the big strong chicken men we have here.

Most of us take the bone breaks and bruises well but act like we are dying when we have the common cold - well some of us do.